When Pharisees and scribes challenged Jesus to give them a sign, the Lord suggested that they look instead to Jonah, a reluctant prophet who had three days in the belly of a huge fish or whale to contemplate doing God’s will. People of Nineveh heeded the warning spread by Jonah to repent or perish. Rather than preaching complex theology, Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables that used everyday images. Growth of seeds, like words, depends a lot on where they land. Comparable to weeds cropping up in a sabotaged wheat field, evil and goodness exist in the world but will get sorted out in the end. When we hear a familiar parable, do we try to dig a little deeper into what it says to us right now?